Der Kandidat (1980)

Der Kandidat: Directed by Stefan Aust, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, Alexander von Eschwege. With Wolf Biermann, Karl Carstens, Edmund Stoiber, Franz Josef Strauß. In 1980 Franz Josef Strauss competed against Helmut Schmidt for the Office of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.

“In 1980, the German politician Franz Josef Strauss ran for Chancellor against Helmut Schmidt. He was arch-conservative and considered as un-electable by many people, though he was tremendously popular in his native Bavaria.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis movie showed Franz Josef Strauss in a very respectless way – by quoting him and showing old speeches. Some cinemas refused to show the movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn the end, Strauss lost the elections.”